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Steve Hayward: Should the NeverTrump "Thought Leaders" Who Are Only Now Realizing That Supreme Court Nominations Are Pretty Important Continue Being "Thought Leaders"?
As Doc_0 notes, the retirement of justices isn't a black swan event that just snuck up on the NeverTrump Super-Cons. Not only do actuarial tables combined with a basic understanding of How Time Works suggest that 3-4 justices will retire over the course of Trump's two (or more...?) terms, but we knew for a fact the next president would appoint at least one justice, given that Antonin Scalia died months before the election.
And yet: This seems to have completely blindsided the very important people who tweet on twitter all day long about how fucking smart they all are. Should these "influencers" continue to influence?True, but it does invite fair questions about a decision-making process that didn't properly take account of the stakes in 2016.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) June 28, 2018
"Two years later, I finally realize how awful it would have been to let Hillary pack SCOTUS with lefties" is not a good look. https://t.co/6aAs6BRhUD
I'm not saying it was tantamount to an endorsement of Hillary, although hardcore NeverTrumpers did do that, and they're currently rooting for Dems to take over Congress. But if you'll indulge me for a few tweets, this is the thing about conservatives and 2016 that still bugs me. I'm all in favor of vigorously contested primaries. I didn't vote for Trump myself, and he wasn't in my top 3. I got some angry feedback when I wrote highly of other candidates. I'd have no inherent problem with people supporting a primary challenger to him in 2020. But at some point the primary is over, and the election absolutely does become a binary choice, with gigantic stakes given the size of government, power of SCOTUS, etc. I deeply wish the stakes were lower and elections were less important, but they're not.And then there's Maude:
When Trump secured the nomination, Republicans - especially politicians, writers, pundits - either decided the stakes were high enough to support him despite his flaws as the underdog in a tough and important election, or they decided opposing him was worth President Hillary. There is a fantasy about the "third option" of staying home that needs to be put to bed forever. That's not how it works. You stay home and the Democrat gets half a step closer to winning. Now, if you thought the stakes were low enough that either actively helping Clinton win or passively allowing it were acceptable courses of action, then fair enough... but it's disingenuous to change your mind now and say, "Wow, SCOTUS is really important."
We knew that in 2016, and it was pretty clear several SCOTUS nominations were on the table, one of them PROMINENTLY so. We knew what would happen if Clinton locked in a far-left SCOTUS for a generation. This is important because we're talking about the judgment of prominent pundits and politicians, people who (at least in theory) hold significant sway over public opinion. They told us to trust them last time as they took a position that would have put Clinton in the White House. I'm glad if they've seen the light, but I'm sorry, I just can't cut that much slack for seeing a light that should have been as obvious as the rising sun in 2016. The retirement of aging SCOTUS judges is not a black swan event. When it really mattered, when the chips were down and the Republican nominee needed all the help he could get to win the longest long-shot victory in recent memory, there are people who went AWOL or actively supported the Democrat. No, I don't want to "dump" on them and I don't spend time needling them. (The clowns who are still trying to give Congress to the Dems are another matter.) But a higher standard must be set for the political judgment of influential people. And for what it's worth, I felt the same way about those who judged it preferable to toss 2008 to Obama instead of supporting squishy McCain, or bailed on Romney in 2012. How did that work out for you, guys? Still think giving Obama the White House was a small price to pay? The fact is that the stakes are so high, we're so close to crossing so many lines, the Democrats are so aggressive about using power, that I don't think any presidential or congressional term can be sacrificed even for sincere long-term plans to improve the GOP. I understood all of that in 2016. I'm pleased to see conservatives who didn't coming around. I welcome them one and all. But if they're prominent and influential, it still matters that they made different calculations in 2016, and will ask their audience to trust them again. /end
I’d probably prefer the jurisprudence of Trump’s pick to that of Kennedy. But given that the debate—or should I say the war?—over his successor is going to intensify an overheated political culture and hyper-partisan political system, I’m inclined to wish Kennedy hadn’t retired.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 27, 2018
This guy's such a coward he can't even suck a dick without being mealy-mouthed about it. Though Cap'n Bill does begin scheming about how to block a conservative justice:
One idea: Collins, Murkowski, McCain, Flake & Corker issue a statement w/ Jones, Manchin, Heitkamp, Donnelly & Coons: Let's see who the nominee is; let's have a civil discussion about her or him, and about how the Senate should proceed; we're not making any decisions for a while.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 28, 2018
I agree with the spirit of this. As an analytical matter, people are underestimating how much Dems can gum up the works in the Senate if they’re united on strategy, and especially if they can find one or two fellow traveling Republicans to join in or accept the gumming. https://t.co/xZa7JiLVIE
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 28, 2018
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: atomicplaygirl - I survived GNAMM 2017 and all I got was this lousy nic at June 28, 2018 08:00 PM (Gim9y)
When I see that Ace posts a tweet from Kristol, I scroll over it because his face makes me throw up a little in my mouth.
Tell me if Capt'n Kristol said anything important enough to warrant that, mmkay?
P.S. My cat just sneezed on me. I guess he doesn't like the Cap any more than I do.
Posted by: atomicplaygirl - I survived GNAMM 2017 and all I got was this lousy nic at June 28, 2018 08:02 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: RI Red at June 28, 2018 08:03 PM (K2QOd)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:03 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: atomicplaygirl - I survived GNAMM 2017 and all I got was this lousy nic at June 28, 2018 08:04 PM (Gim9y)
Guess the little cuck wants to self fulfill his prophecy.
Posted by: buzzion at June 28, 2018 08:05 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 28, 2018 08:05 PM (5AVMW)
BTW, despite the bad blood between Mike Lee and PDT, the former is on the latter's short list for the nomination.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:06 PM (VM6ev)
Yep, it's gotten to that. The process is so corrupt I no longer care about fairness.
And in that direction lies madness. I've named one of my ARs that.
Posted by: RI Red at June 28, 2018 08:06 PM (K2QOd)
Why the fuck do we even talk about him anymore?
Isn't it time to just ignore that bloated piece of shit?
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 28, 2018 08:06 PM (5AVMW)
Posted by: Octopussy at June 28, 2018 08:06 PM (ZJHPc)
Or am I operating off of old info?
Posted by: blaster at June 28, 2018 06:57 PM (DH5wZ)
Sometimes you want to point and laugh.
Posted by: buzzion at June 28, 2018 08:07 PM (lKs2v)
Its a fairly new phrase.. and I guess its supposed to represent those 'deep thinkers' who are pundits?
And are somehow ELITE enough to be smarter than us poor dumb folks... so we NEED someone to LEAD OUR THOUGHTS???
Not lead us Politically... not moral leaders... not philosophical thinkers...
But THOUGHT Leaders?
Strikes me as the very core of Hubris.
Posted by: Don Q at June 28, 2018 08:07 PM (NgKpN)
Yep, it's gotten to that. The process is so corrupt I no longer care about fairness.
And in that direction lies madness. I've named one of my ARs that.
Posted by: RI Red at June 28, 2018 08:06 PM (K2QOd)
Note to Leftists: How about supporting an amendment for term limits on ALL judges and elected officials to boot?
Heh.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:07 PM (VM6ev)
Dude, his balls are made of pussy.
Posted by: Pam Poovey at June 28, 2018 08:07 PM (rznWS)
Posted by: atomicplaygirl - I survived GNAMM 2017 and all I got was this lousy nic at June 28, 2018 08:08 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: buzzion at June 28, 2018 08:08 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: Mark1971 at June 28, 2018 08:08 PM (xPl2J)
Dude, his balls are made of pussy.
Posted by: Pam Poovey at June 28, 2018 08:07 PM (rznWS)
Phrasing?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:08 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by Ace
NICE!!!!
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 28, 2018 08:08 PM (5AVMW)
Cucks DeLuxe.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:08 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: Octopussy at June 28, 2018 08:09 PM (ZJHPc)
++++
It's tough to fuck a guy in the mouth if he's got it all full of meal. Not that it can't be done; you just have to work harder at it.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 28, 2018 08:09 PM (pvjTE)
Posted by: RI Red at June 28, 2018 08:09 PM (K2QOd)
Posted by: Alexandria Che Ocasio-Guppy-Face Cortez Castro-Mendoza-Nihongo-Chihuahua at June 28, 2018 08:10 PM (/TNyL)
Posted by: Cheri at June 28, 2018 08:10 PM (oiNtH)
Like some of the influential thought leaders who will proudly tell you, "I was a socialist ..."
But now I've changed. Things are different, and you can trust my opinions.
Like the battered wife who says, "He really loves me, but he is under so much stress, he can't help it, and I know I can change him."
People don't change. They just get better at deceiving you.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 28, 2018 08:10 PM (roQNm)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 28, 2018 08:11 PM (Evws/)
Posted by: Shep! at June 28, 2018 08:11 PM (nILVB)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 28, 2018 08:12 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at June 28, 2018 08:12 PM (nBr1j)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2018 08:12 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: RI Red at June 28, 2018 08:09 PM (K2QOd)
They'd never go for it since a corrupt judiciary is their only means of getting around the will of the people vis a vis elections they lose.
That said, there might be a sea change in that since the coming of Trump. Ocasio-Cortez, if not Sandersnista and Obama, means that all masks and pretenses have been dropped. Despite the indoctrination of the youth, a majority still want no part of that garbage.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:12 PM (VM6ev)
But THOUGHT Leaders?
Strikes me as the very core of Hubris.
Posted by: Don Q at June 28, 2018 08:07 PM (NgKpN)
That's the demonrat [sic] platform in a nutshell; I know better than you, so I should control most of your money, set rules, etc. It is arrogance, absolutely, trying to own lives other than their own.
Posted by: atomicplaygirl - I survived GNAMM 2017 and all I got was this lousy nic at June 28, 2018 08:13 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 28, 2018 08:13 PM (BRvh1)
Ding dong the wicked cucks are dead ....
I thought they were already dead, but now they really truly dead(in influence at least, even if they still tweet from the grave, dead ringers)
Posted by: illiniwek at June 28, 2018 08:13 PM (bT8Z4)
Posted by: MC Honey Mustard at June 28, 2018 08:14 PM (Q9ugn)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 08:14 PM (+xnSO)
Posted by: kallisto at June 28, 2018 08:14 PM (349nX)
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at June 28, 2018 08:14 PM (nBr1j)
Posted by: Roy at June 28, 2018 08:15 PM (ABjxW)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2018 08:15 PM (QDnY+)
5 fatalities and 2 minor injuries (from glass breaking)...in the process of securing shooters residence.
Shooter used smoke grenades...not IED's.
Shooter is a resident of Maryland....can't confirm or deny any connection to Gazette.
Spokesman says he's heard nothing about facial recognition or fingerprints.
Sent threats through social media to Gazette...
Press is asking about the ability to not get his fingerprints. Spokesman says he has no knowledge of that being a problem.
No knowledge that shooter was targeting anyone specific at the newspaper.
Posted by: Tami at June 28, 2018 08:15 PM (Enq6K)
Spoken like a true conservative. I wonder how much money conservative Billy has given the Dems?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 28, 2018 08:16 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at June 28, 2018 08:14 PM (nBr1j)
No need for those guys, there's plenty of 'wood' around here- you know what I'm saying? *high five*
Posted by: That Guy at June 28, 2018 08:16 PM (+xnSO)
I'll take Abigail over Ben any day.
Well, I'll take those ginormous jugs.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 28, 2018 08:16 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 28, 2018 08:16 PM (89T5c)
Obviously, not. People gain influence by exercising judgment that is borne out over time; they saw further than others, and were right before others realized the best course of action.
These assholes were wrong, and maintained a flawed position, even after it was obvious that they were wrong.
In a parliamentary democracy, they'd be pushed out forthwith as PM on a vote of no confidence. As they should be here.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:16 PM (hDNQh)
Posted by: squeakywheel at June 28, 2018 08:16 PM (vB7kY)
Please stop giving Kristol any airtime at all.
In any medium.
Posted by: squeakywheel at June 28, 2018 08:16 PM (vB7kY)
Matte medium. Or Astro Glide.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:17 PM (VM6ev)
Seriously, just how Stalinist / Maoist a title is "thought leader", anyway ? It sounds like a senior reeducation-camp specialist.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at June 28, 2018 08:17 PM (GNCPT)
Posted by: kallisto at June 28, 2018 08:17 PM (349nX)
Plus an add-on to the 2d that requires every able-bodied citizen between 18 and 70 to drill with/own a select-fire rifle.
Posted by: RI Red at June 28, 2018 08:17 PM (Anc5+)
Posted by: MC Honey Mustard at June 28, 2018 08:17 PM (Q9ugn)
that there is poetry, sheer poetry in full bloom. Better than that faggy Victorian stuff I wrote
Posted by: Charles Algernon Swinburne at June 28, 2018 08:17 PM (Co9e8)
Posted by: FaCubeItches at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (rznWS)
I can be reasonable. Let's make a deal. That's what you Trumpkins like, right, making deals?
I'm willing to support Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
But in return, Trump needs to back off his resistance to the large-scale population replacement of flyover Americans with Third World migrants.
And he needs to return to global free trade in which heartland America is transformed from an engineering and manufacturing powerhouse to an agricultural, raw materials and fast-food economy.
And if you take this deal now, I'll even throw in a 5% discount for your Evangelical readers on restricted-view and interior staterooms on my next cruise to the Holy Land!
What's not to like?
Posted by: Reasonable Cap'n Bill Kristol at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (DuAZ5)
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at June 28, 2018 08:14 PM (nBr1j)
Lots of potential workers in their parking lots, though.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (hDNQh)
The stakes are high.This is the game.Here is our champion.
That.Is.It.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (0QYMt)
Posted by: kallisto at June 28, 2018 08:17 PM (349nX)
Shooter had been in a dispute with the paper. Saw that at Breitbart.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: REDACTED at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (STPlW)
I know, assuming facts not in evidence.
Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Bill Kristol at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (pw+jk)
Seriously, just how Stalinist / Maoist a title is "thought leader", anyway ? It sounds like a senior reeducation-camp specialist.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at June 28, 2018 08:17 PM (GNCPT)
People like titles. People who do not do anything like them even more. I have found the less a person does the more convoluted, obscure, and yet grandiose their title is (that they usually picked for themselves.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (+xnSO)
In Scout camp, that's called a circle jerk.
Posted by: pep at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (T6t7i)
Term limits for politicians won't change anything without a periodic flush of the sewer system. Obama, and his loyalist holdovers in the federal government are illustrating that right now.
The longer Obama's operatives keep their government position, the more the damage there will be. Just look at the FBI.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 28, 2018 08:19 PM (roQNm)
If he wasn't the first he could be no more than a thought seconder.
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at June 28, 2018 08:19 PM (nBr1j)
Winning!
Posted by: Octopussy at June 28, 2018 08:19 PM (ZJHPc)
I want to know the fuckers name. Almost all mass shootings in the past we had a name in a few hours. I want his name.
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 28, 2018 08:19 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 28, 2018 08:19 PM (vChNs)
All that wordage, just to say - "it's fucking idiotic to not support the only thing that will stop Hillz and the Dems".
Lessee, 80% of German losses are coming on the eastern front, but ....... I I I I don't know, we can't support that awful Stalin fella.
And why "welcome" any of these idiots back? They weren't needed for Trump to triumph, they obviously are not too bright - so, why bother with them at all?
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2018 08:19 PM (QDnY+)
i'd rather he go beat his head against a wall.
also...too little, too late steven.
you sound a little phony.
Posted by: concrete girl at June 28, 2018 08:19 PM (Y2yEM)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (VM6ev)
Heard classified hook up went sour
Posted by: REDACTED at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (STPlW)
Posted by: Octopussy at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (ZJHPc)
I mean, partly its the left having the vapors over everything to a degree only seen in meth-addicted manic depressives, but its also the overly powerful state of the judiciary.
And the best way to dial that back is a court strongly dominated (like 6-3 or more) with judges who will rule strictly and carefully by the constitution, rolling back the excesseses of previous courts, and weakening their position.
I honestly don't see that happening, I fear how far the left will go to prevent it. There is literally no scenario or horror that they could try that is off the table. A nuke in a major city isn't too far for them to consider.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Whoopi Pie at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (nILVB)
Kristol is such a fucking dipshit.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (XrCyE)
1. What a fucking asshole!!
2. That's it, I'm getting another throwaway e-mail address and getting another Twatter account, I cannot not reply to his fucking un-manly and rage-inducing missives.
3. Bill Kristol is a fucking traitorous asshole!
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (5AVMW)
Posted by: Alexandria Che Ocasio-Guppy-Face Cortez Castro-Mendoza-Nihongo-Chihuahua at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (/TNyL)
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (nBr1j)
Whoopi's behind vs. Whoopi's vagina.
Posted by: Roy at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (ABjxW)
You're either a leader, or you're not. There is no such fucking thing as a "thought leader."
Can I get a second?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (hDNQh)
Posted by: f'd at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (UdKB7)
Used some matzo meal mixed with salt, pepper, dried onion/parsley, paprika, cayenne, Italian seasoning etc., fried in olive oil and baked with cheese on top, served with a tomato-caper sauce. Know it's not kosher but was 100% delicious. Old hotness = breadcrumbs. New hotness = matzo.
Posted by: atomicplaygirl - I survived GNAMM 2017 and all I got was this lousy nic at June 28, 2018 08:21 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: clutch cargo at June 28, 2018 08:21 PM (RHEDC)
Would have made the Hawaiian judges look like Don Ho singing "Tiny Bubbles"....
"Tiny bubbles in the wine,
make me happy, make me feel fine,
tiny bubbles make me warm all over
with a feeling that I'm gonna love you 'til the end of time.
So here's to the golden moon,
and here's to the silver sea,
and mostly here's a toast to you and me....."
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 28, 2018 08:21 PM (EoRCO)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 28, 2018 08:09 PM (pvjTE)
---
doesn't sound like much of a lubricant. Or does it increase the tactile sensation of the job? questions people. I have questions...
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 28, 2018 08:21 PM (vChNs)
Posted by: Roy at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (ABjxW)
So Whoopi's brain didn't even place, it at best showed?
Sounds about right.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:21 PM (hDNQh)
They are being very, very insistent that he's white male, repeatedly saying that, strongly. Which makes me suspect maybe not as ethnically white as you'd think.
Let's put it this way: I bet he's not Irish or Norwegian. Technically all non-Africans west of the Caucusus mountains are white...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:21 PM (39g3+)
Little old uneducated deplorable me knew that it was a change election and the right Repub could win it. But it had to be someone that didn't rely on the donors or the media to do it. Trump was the only person to fit that criteria. And Trump has proven that the economy works best when you have someone as President that understands what makes the economy work.
Posted by: notsothoreau at June 28, 2018 08:21 PM (JKNZq)
was identified by multiple law enforcement officials to NBC News. He had
sued the paper in 2012 for defamation. Case was tossed by a judge.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 28, 2018 08:22 PM (nKbPK)
that cannot convince anyone then that person is unreachable by
persuasion, reason, argument, and logic. That person is ruled by his or
her emotions, and is no longer worthy of considering in any way since
that person is not giving consideration to anything but the hurt feels
adults were supposed to eschew after graduating from high school, if not
junior high.
The stakes are high.This is the game.Here is our champion.
That.Is.It.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General
and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (0QYMt)
====
Mikey, well said and oh so true.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 28, 2018 08:23 PM (pw+jk)
I fear if Hillary won, we'd see war, in the streets. Not internet tough guy "civil warz!!!!1!" but the real damn thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:23 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 28, 2018 08:23 PM (XrCyE)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:23 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (hDNQh)
Seconded- as long as we include the next person to say 'Paradigm shift' un-ironically.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 08:23 PM (+xnSO)
How many of us woulda thought PJ Orourke would admit to voting for a clinton? Or George W...never mind, you can see the Bush clan totally cucking out. I suppose Columba Bush has that kind of purchase on their intellects.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 28, 2018 08:23 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: Alexandria Che Ocasio-Guppy-Face Cortez Castro-Mendoza-Nihongo-Chihuahua at June 28, 2018 08:23 PM (/TNyL)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at June 28, 2018 08:23 PM (xFZUI)
Posted by: Roy at June 28, 2018 08:23 PM (ABjxW)
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 28, 2018 08:22 PM (nKbPK)
Correction: it was Jarrod VON Ramos. Or Jarrod Sven Ramossen.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:23 PM (hDNQh)
Posted by: f'd at June 28, 2018 08:24 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: REDACTED at June 28, 2018 08:24 PM (STPlW)
From what I'm reading, she's on the short list, the long shot out of three.
Of course, this is the opinion of experts, of course. Federalist society experts. They may want to hold her off to replace RBG when she croaks. Barret is young enough to wait.
And I'm glad I'm not the only one who would pick a Supreme Court Justice based on her bod.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 28, 2018 08:24 PM (8O3HH)
Match it to term limits and I'm ok.
Posted by: RI Red at June 28, 2018 08:24 PM (Anc5+)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 28, 2018 08:24 PM (UsCnO)
So PDT is "flawed."
Does everyone remember all the times that teh SCOAMF got called that?
Yeah, neither do I.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 28, 2018 08:25 PM (HaL55)
was identified by multiple law enforcement officials to NBC News. He had
sued the paper in 2012 for defamation. Case was tossed by a judge.
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 28, 2018 08:22 PM (nKbPK)
=====
First I don't believe a thing that comes out of the Fake News. The police presser I just watched said don't believe anything other than what comes out officially.
Second, So if true, white Hispanic then.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 28, 2018 08:25 PM (pw+jk)
Besides, I cannot stand looking at his smug faccia.
Posted by: Tami at June 28, 2018 08:25 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 28, 2018 08:25 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: REDACTED at June 28, 2018 08:24 PM (STPlW)
Man, talk about a conflicted "fagele." He's McStains version of Renfield one day and the next he wants Trump to invade China.
I detest that grahamaphrodite.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:25 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 28, 2018 08:25 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: micky at June 28, 2018 08:26 PM (dF9Lb)
Posted by: davidt at June 28, 2018 08:26 PM (nkGbs)
That one did cause me some serious grinding of teeth. And then Will and Goldberg. Jeebus guys, the DC cocktail circuit is not THAT exciting.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 28, 2018 08:26 PM (XrCyE)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2018 08:26 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (hDNQh)
Seconded- as long as we include the next person to say 'Paradigm shift' un-ironically.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 08:23 PM (+xnSO)
Of course. Along with "thinking outside the box." They won't be any thinking outside the box they're going to be in. /kidding
And it goes without saying that the same principle - the Guevara Doctrine - applies to anybody who bleats "it's for the children."
In fact, to save time, we might shoot them on the spot. OK, there'll be some clean up, unless we hold public meetings on rooms with plastic sheets on the floor.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:26 PM (hDNQh)
Kristol is quite aware that his best days are behind him. And the new kids on the media block? They don't even know his name or care if told. That's his legacy. And he's spiteful and nasty because of it.
Posted by: 13times at June 28, 2018 08:26 PM (K3B2k)
I can be reasonable. Let's make a deal. That's what you Trumpkins like, right, making deals?
I'm willing to support Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
But in return, Trump needs to back off his resistance to the large-scale population replacement of flyover Americans with Third World migrants.
And he needs to return to global free trade in which heartland America is transformed from an engineering and manufacturing powerhouse to an agricultural, raw materials and fast-food economy.
And if you take this deal now, I'll even throw in a 5% discount for your Evangelical readers on restricted-view and interior staterooms on my next cruise to the Holy Land!
What's not to like?
Posted by: Reasonable Cap'n Bill Kristol at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (DuAZ5)
Seriously, read the above out loud. It's smooth, urbane, and very convincing..... almost soothing in rhythm and tone.....
I'm starting to think a Cruise is just what me and the wife need this fall...... say, I wonder if you could please send me your fee schedule, Captain?
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 28, 2018 08:26 PM (5AVMW)
Why not use her maiden-name: Alexandria Che Ocasio - Chalupa de Santa Ana y Taco Mas Grande?
Posted by: pep at June 28, 2018 08:26 PM (T6t7i)
So PDT is "flawed."
Does everyone remember all the times that teh SCOAMF got called that?
Yeah, neither do I.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 28, 2018 08:25 PM (HaL55)
"Klistor is fraud."
- - Looftop Koleans
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:26 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at June 28, 2018 08:27 PM (qM84C)
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 28, 2018 08:27 PM (FOPyv)
There was enough there for any person to think he wasn't going to be substantially better than Hillary and we were doomed either way. I can see that.
But now? There's no excuse. The guy is the most conservative, effective, and impressive president we've ever had, at least in my lifetime. Maybe ever. Now, if you're talking "well maybe we shouldn't support him" you're just a leftist twit wearing a cowboy hat.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:27 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2018 08:28 PM (UADBM)
I detest that grahamaphrodite.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:25 PM (VM6ev)
To be fair, he only wants to invade China every 28 days, when he has diarrhea.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:28 PM (hDNQh)
Trump's fine, fuck you cucks...stop lapping up the lefts' continual character attacks against effective republicans.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 28, 2018 08:28 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:27 PM (39g3+)
Amen..preach it brother
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2018 08:28 PM (UADBM)
See only a true, true conservative would want other true, true conservatives like Collins, Murkowski, McCain, Flake & Corker to be in charge of this
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 28, 2018 08:29 PM (SiINZ)
First Supreme Court opinions with "uh" in the text.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 28, 2018 08:29 PM (XrCyE)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2018 08:29 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:27 PM (39g3+)
Yep. He was a wild card, God knows, and I was an early supporter, but only because I thought he was our only chance of avoiding Her Thighness.
But at this point, already, I think he's lapped Ronaldus Magnus.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:29 PM (hDNQh)
You're either a leader, or you're not. There is no such fucking thing as a "thought leader."
Can I get a second?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:20 PM (hDNQh)
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I like the way you think. I'm with you!
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 28, 2018 08:29 PM (vChNs)
Posted by: f'd at June 28, 2018 08:24 PM (UdKB7)
Karl Marx. Dude was a complete bore, never had any money to buy a round, and smelled like a tannery - wouldn't bathe.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 08:29 PM (0QYMt)
Full court press on the red state Dem Senators down in the polls who voted to confirm Gorsuch.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:29 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: Octopussy at June 28, 2018 08:30 PM (ZJHPc)
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probably ever.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 28, 2018 08:30 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: standfast24 at June 28, 2018 08:30 PM (+9QGm)
"I have a yearbook here that she signed in 1978, to this boy!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:30 PM (39g3+)
effective, and impressive president we've ever had, at least in my
lifetime. Maybe ever.
I like Trump and the job he's done a great deal, but he has a way to go til he's in Washington / Lincoln territory. Almost certainly the only one to bang a porn star, though.
Posted by: pep at June 28, 2018 08:30 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2018 08:30 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:27 PM (39g3+)
What is the name of your Newsletter again?
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 28, 2018 08:31 PM (5AVMW)
JARROD W. RAMOS v. ERIC THOMAS HARTLEY, et al.
By: Daily Record Staff September 18, 2015
Torts -- Defamation -- Failure to state a claim The appellant of this pro se appeal is Jarrod W. Ramos. The appellees are 1) Eric Thomas Hartley, formerly a staff writer and columnist with The Capital; 2) Thomas L. Marquardt, the editor and publisher of The Capital; and 3) Capital Gazette Communications, LLC.
Posted by: Tami at June 28, 2018 08:31 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: kallisto at June 28, 2018 08:31 PM (349nX)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 28, 2018 08:29 PM (XrCyE)
Also, his first legal publication.
"Uh ... so the plaintiff folks ... hold on ... hold on ... say X, [shifts to other teleprompter] the defendant folks say Y. I agree with the plaintiff folks, because they're darker skinned than the defendant folks."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:31 PM (hDNQh)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 28, 2018 08:31 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 28, 2018 08:31 PM (FOPyv)
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 28, 2018 08:22 PM (nKbPK)
NBC also just found out that he was wearing a MAGA hat, carrying a Confederate flag, hated gays, wymyn, Mooselimbs, and immigrants.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 28, 2018 08:32 PM (SiINZ)
Bastards.
Posted by: eleven at June 28, 2018 08:32 PM (+lOpA)
No one will ever make me believe that Chester Arthur wasn't nailing everything that moved.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 28, 2018 08:32 PM (XrCyE)
statement w/ Jones, Manchin, Heitkamp, Donnelly Coons: Let's see
who the nominee is; let's have a civil discussion about her or him, and
about how the Senate should proceed; we're not making any decisions for a
while.]
Isn't that called The Nomination Process?
Posted by: davidt at June 28, 2018 08:32 PM (nkGbs)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2018 08:26 PM (/tuJf)
Trump denied that on AF1 today.
Posted by: Tami at June 28, 2018 08:32 PM (Enq6K)
Apparently Steve Jobs thought his Vegan lifestyle meant he wouldn't sweat or smell bad so he didn't like to bathe or clean himself.
His workers disputed this claim. Strongly.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:32 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 28, 2018 08:24 PM (8O3HH)
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I like how she has Habeased her Corpus
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 28, 2018 08:32 PM (vChNs)
it was, instead, the worst person ever. although she did carry hot sauce in her purse...and to be fair, I can't think of a bigger DC outsider than the first women to run for president.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 28, 2018 08:33 PM (FOPyv)
All those years these douchebags were on FNC talking about stuff, they were merely winking and nodding, and actually playing for the other side.
Fookin hell.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at June 28, 2018 08:33 PM (ySAEx)
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probably ever.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 28, 2018 08:30 PM (FOPyv)
Him, Cooidge and Reagan. That's it since 1910.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:33 PM (VM6ev)
And in that direction lies madness. I've named one of my ARs that.
Posted by: RI Red at June 28, 2018 08:06 PM (K2QOd)
And these stupid fu*** on the left want to mess with people who name their AR's.
My AR-10 is named Fuck.My AR-15 is named You.
Is it over the top to start naming various rounds of ammunition?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 28, 2018 08:34 PM (UsCnO)
She literally is never mentioned in media up here except when:
1) She brings pork back to the state or
2) She bucks the Republican party line.
Thats it. Never anything else. It always falls in one of those two categories. I really, REALLY hope LePage primaries her next go around.
Posted by: Defenestratus at June 28, 2018 08:34 PM (yG6Vk)
One hand you have the smooth ideological boys who could only vote for Clinton because Trump is so uncouth.
On the other hand you have the non-ideological Trump who delivers.
Yep.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 08:34 PM (0QYMt)
Oh I don't want a woman because a woman, I want a woman because it destroys the carefully planned campaign to portray the nominee as a sex fiend who rapes 5 year olds on the way to molesting a bus full of middle school cheerleaders.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:34 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 28, 2018 08:34 PM (XrCyE)
Posted by: pep at June 28, 2018 08:30 PM (T6t7i)
Not to be a pedantic dick, but I'm pretty sure there weren't any "porn stars" available for banging back in the day, so apples and oranges..... also, who gives a fucking shit about that when the fate of the country is at stake?
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 28, 2018 08:34 PM (5AVMW)
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at June 28, 2018 08:35 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: Kreplach at June 28, 2018 08:35 PM (UfMVm)
Jeebus guys, the DC cocktail circuit is not THAT exciting.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 28, 2018 08:26 PM (XrCyE)
Maybe there are lots of cute young chicks like Ali Watkins willing to share their favors. That would make me think twice about my principles.
Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2018 08:35 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Rick in SK at June 28, 2018 08:35 PM (K2T58)
I know. And yet Fox just broke into Tucker's show saying they had a well placed source saying it seems likely and might be soon.
He was even speculating on Hope Hicks being a possible replacement.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2018 08:35 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General
and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 08:18 PM (0QYMt)
That's the whole lib MO - whip people into an emotional frenzy over everything, find the injustice over expired milk and manipulate emotions to get the desired outcome, irrespective of facts or reason.
I have a dear friend who is a democrat, and she wants people to be safe. And happy. And provided for. Well intentioned, sure, but personal responsibility is not in her equation really, nor is how much someone else's responsibility extends to another person you're not related to. Fire and safety as a shared part of the community, I get that. Providing unrepentant hard core addicts with injection sites and low barrier shelters... yeah, I'm not interested.
She still can't quite figure out how I'm a great person she loves and trusts but I am not a democrat. I see how easily she gets manipulated and influenced by the democrat talking points as opposed to her own principles or moral compass. I think her moral compass IS the democrat party and their talking points because she is convinced of their good intentions.
You can't reason with that, and unfortunately, those people still vote.
Posted by: atomicplaygirl - I survived GNAMM 2017 and all I got was this lousy nic at June 28, 2018 08:35 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2018 08:35 PM (/tuJf)
Easy on the eyes
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2018 08:35 PM (UADBM)
A certain cruise ship with all Bill's friends aboard?
Not for anyone to die or anything. just to have a close encounter of the Grim Reaper kind. Where he waves at you and says "See you later". Focusing the mind on the importance of staying alive and being free from the insanity of the left.
Geez louise I hate Romney with a pinstriped passion but I wouldn't vote against him to let Obama take the office. Wait that's what I did I voted for this parasite good guy cause I figured he'd at least act conservative now and then and probably likes America. Whereas Obama didn't have an American bone in his body.
I just wish that if they don't like Trump, why do they have to talk about him all the time and confuse the issue?
It's like atheists. They always got to tell you they're atheists. Like I give a shit. They'll find out their wrong or not. I'll never know probably.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 28, 2018 08:36 PM (jG5Dt)
I know. And yet Fox just broke into Tucker's show saying they had a well placed source saying it seems likely and might be soon.
He was even speculating on Hope Hicks being a possible replacement.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2018 08:35 PM (/tuJf)
that makes sense, in a TRump kind of way
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 08:36 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 28, 2018 08:36 PM (4XN7s)
Is anyone else bothered by the whole meme of 'thought leaders'?
*raises both hands*
I'll listen to what you have to say, especially if I can tell you're speaking the truth. But I'll make up my own mind, thankyewverymuch. If you start bullshitting me, I'll ignore you forever.
I don't let anyone else do my thinking for me. And I absolutely will not tolerate control freaks. I only take orders from one person on this Earth and you are not that person.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 28, 2018 08:36 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:29 PM (hDNQh)
Been a bunch of lappin' at the ol' smart military blog today.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 28, 2018 08:36 PM (DOpvX)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 28, 2018 08:34 PM (UsCnO)
Ummmmm....No.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 28, 2018 08:36 PM (EoRCO)
Can be fun
Join the romp-'em stomp-'em vote for SCOTUS
EV RY ONE!!!!!111!!
(those fucking Democrats shoved Obamacare down our throats, and it's payback time)
Posted by: Les Kinetic at June 28, 2018 08:37 PM (HJ3KL)
And boy does he deliver. Its almost confusing how he's actually doing what he said. Over and over and over. Fulfilling promises, never before as long as I've been alive have we had a president who so consistently and steadily keeps his promises. He says he's gonna build the wall, I believe him now. I thought it was all campaign BS when he was running, just something to pull in the rubes.
Its really uncomfortable, unfamiliar territory.
And the fact that these jackwagons are so opposed to him that they cannot get past how he talks.... that is just alien to me. I cannot wrap my head around it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:37 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2018 08:37 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at June 28, 2018 08:37 PM (/TNyL)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at June 28, 2018 08:37 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:27 PM (39g3+)
Second that emotion.
Posted by: April at June 28, 2018 08:37 PM (e8PP1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2018 08:38 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 28, 2018 08:38 PM (4XN7s)
Posted by: pep at June 28, 2018 08:30 PM (T6t7i)
IMO, he's way past Lincoln already. Outrageous? Here's why I think that. Lincoln had the Civil War thrust upon him, and after a lot of fits and starts, stepping on his dick, and a lot of roughing up of the Bills of Rights, he eventually prevailed.
He had precisely zero impact on world affairs. None, whatsoever.
Trump is already having a huge impact on world affairs (never mind domestic affairs). The nasty situation in North Korea may (MAY) come to a happy and peaceful resolution, thanks to his efforts. The mullahs in Iran, are shitting bricks, and may well face their Ceausceau moment any day now owing to Trump's leadership (because the insurgents realize that Trump WILL support them, assuming they're not Islamic nutjobs).
It's important to recognize first, that Lincoln is no BFD outside the United States. And second, he was widely regarded as a chimp - even by his own Cabinet, e.g., Seward - literally right up until he decided to take in "My American Cousin."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:38 PM (hDNQh)
A certain cruise ship with all Bill's friends aboard?
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Attacked by pirates before rescued, damsel in distress style, by Trump and guns.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 28, 2018 08:38 PM (VgKNm)
And in that direction lies madness. I've named one of my ARs that.
Posted by: RI Red at June 28, 2018 08:06 PM (K2QOd)
And these stupid fu*** on the left want to mess with people who name their AR's.
My AR-10 is named Fuck.My AR-15 is named You.
Is it over the top to start naming various rounds of ammunition?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 28, 2018 08:34 PM (UsCnO)
My .45 is named.... Reason...
For when folks need to see... Reason...
Posted by: Don Q at June 28, 2018 08:38 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: garrett at June 28, 2018 08:38 PM (KJRtZ)
I'm seeing Amy Coney Barrett being tossed around a lot. She's supposedly a super hardcore traditional Catholic. She's got seven kids? Opposed to the death penalty though, which is a problem. Also I don't trust women with two last names. Sorry, ladies, but I don't. They always seem to have Can I talk to your manager hair and problem glasses and manjaws. It's a way to telegraph that your not doing the traditional thing thank you very much.
We need tough men capable of making hard decisions. I want a shitlord who drinks liberal tears and looks like he'll tear your arm off and shove it up your ass.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 28, 2018 08:39 PM (4ErVI)
I know. And yet Fox just broke into Tucker's show saying they had a well placed source saying it seems likely and might be soon.
He was even speculating on Hope Hicks being a possible replacement.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2018 08:35 PM (/tuJf)
Hot Fresh Titty Meat!
Posted by: MC Honey Mustard at June 28, 2018 08:39 PM (Q9ugn)
Can be fun
Join the romp-'em stomp-'em vote for SCOTUS
EV RY ONE!!!!!111!!
(those fucking Democrats shoved Obamacare down our throats, and it's payback time)
Posted by: Les Kinetic at June 28, 2018 08:37 PM (HJ3KL)
It was Harry Reid who blew it up to pack the DC Circuit.
Payback is a bitch. Even Mitch McCoCbrother wore a tan suit today as a subtle trolling of SCOAMF.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:39 PM (VM6ev)
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I heard a clip of her somewhere today saying she will really, really, REALLY, REALLY be watching closely how the nominee will be answering the abortion questions. IOW, will they do anything to upset the abortion-a-palooza currently in America. Needless to add, she wants to make sure it isn't going anywhere.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at June 28, 2018 08:39 PM (mQ0Mc)
And Kellyanne has a certain goofy MILFiness herself. Nice bod. Brains to add to the mix.
AOSHQ: we do the serious analysis here in the comments.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2018 08:39 PM (QDnY+)
That's no good. She must go.
Posted by: Soothsayer
SaraH H Sanders' inlaws are lefties. lets get rid of her too.
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 08:39 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: IanDeal at June 28, 2018 08:39 PM (5mrLG)
*raises both hands*
I'll listen to what you have to say, especially if I can tell you're speaking the truth. But I'll make up my own mind, thankyewverymuch. If you start bullshitting me, I'll ignore you forever.
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how did you type that?
someone has special skillz
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 28, 2018 08:40 PM (vChNs)
Posted by: REDACTED at June 28, 2018 08:40 PM (STPlW)
But that was a pretty monumental act of greatness and liberty, whatever the rest of his huge flaws.
Washington is hard to top just because he's a towering almost mythic figure. I doubt anyone will do better, he's the Babe Ruth of presidents, the guy everyone is compared to.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:40 PM (39g3+)
btw, the foremost Conservative and the foremost "thought leader" today is one and the same. Donald J. Trump.
President Trump showed me last night his conservative-liberal bona fides. The man is a legit. He gets it.
*liberal as in classical liberal, not as in leftist
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 28, 2018 08:40 PM (4XN7s)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 28, 2018 08:40 PM (fA1SL)
#NeverTrump
By David Bernstein; May 2, 2016
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump visited the editorial board of The Washington Post on Mar. 21. Here is audio of the full, unedited interview. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)
I haven't blogged for a while, but I wanted to take this opportunity, with the Republican Party establishment increasingly slinking toward Trump, to express my solidarity with the NeverTrump movement.
The man is a crude charlatan, an ignoramus, a fraud, conducting a modern medicine show that combines the worst of politics with the worst of professional wrestling. He is a disaster for the Republican Party, limited government, (what remains of) decency in politics, the Constitution, and the country.
I'd rather Hillary Clinton win. I'd rather (and I never thought I'd say this) Barack Obama serve a third term. I'd even rather Bernie Sanders win, though if it came down to Sanders vs. Trump it might be time to form a breakaway republic. If Trump wins the nomination, I will actively seek to prevent him from becoming president.
I would support any of the Republican presidential candidates who ran in this election over Trump. If Trump wins a majority of the delegates, I will implore any delegates pledged to Trump to stay in their hotel rooms for the first ballot to deny him the nomination. Is that stealing the nomination from the voters? If it is, I don't care. Anything that's legal can and should be done to stop the disastrous Donald Trump.
I'm still hoping that Ted Cruz, or anyone other than Trump if Cruz falters, gets the nomination. Regardless, I and many others will not be sweet-talked, bribed, threatened, or scaremongered into supporting Donald Trump for president. Never, ever, Trump.
Posted by: andycanuck at June 28, 2018 08:41 PM (Evws/)
Dude saved the union. I believe that to be an unqualified good regardless of his standing outside the U.S. (which in my experience is still pretty prominent).
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 28, 2018 08:41 PM (XrCyE)
...
I 'd hit that like a screen door in hurricane...oh who am I kidding.
She probably still wears Disney princess pajamas and smells like baby powder.
DAMMIT
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at June 28, 2018 08:41 PM (/TNyL)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 28, 2018 08:42 PM (Y9uH4)
Can I pray for a disaster at sea without getting banned?
A certain cruise ship with all Bill's friends aboard?
Not for anyone to die or anything. just to have a close encounter of the Grim Reaper kind.
The ship set ground on the shore
Of this uncharted desert isle
With Kristol,
George Will too.
The billionaire
And his wife,
The movie star,
The professor and Hairy Man,
Here on Kristol's Isle.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2018 08:42 PM (IqV8l)
This Dem idiot Tucker had on is previewing the shrieking. If whoever Trump nominates is confirmed, then WOMYN ARE GONNA BE PUT IN JAIL!!!!1111!!!!
GAYS ARE GONNA BE PUT IN JAIL!!!1111!!!!!
I'm telling y'all, this is going to be the nastiest SC fight yet. They're gonna die on this hill.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 28, 2018 08:42 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Tami at June 28, 2018 08:42 PM (Enq6K)
146 Thought leaders swim in the candiru tank.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 28, 2018 08:31 PM (89T5c)
And the candiru starve for lack of penis.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (eXA4G)
-Democrat
-Smokes Pot
-Was not supposed to be able to have guns but did anyway
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: x at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (nFwvY)
Republicans are suckers. They continue to play by the rules while their opponents ignore the rules.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (dJdQf)
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For the longest time, I couldn't figure out why her face was familiar. And then it dawned on me. She resembles Mrs. Roper...a lot. Really, put a curly wig on her. It's Mrs. Stanley Roper.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (mQ0Mc)
Posted by: pep at June 28, 2018 08:30 PM (T6t7i)
Not every Prez gets the chance to lock up his former brothers in arms over failure to pay a whiskey tax - or invade half the country.
Some guys have all the luck.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (DOpvX)
Posted by: TexasDan at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (yL25O)
-Democrat
-Smokes Pot
-Was not supposed to be able to have guns but did anyway
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (39g3+
Anyone in his family an anchorman for Univision?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (2CQCl)
Que?
Oh. Not that kind of senor.
My bad.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (hDNQh)
Jarrod Ramos Status : Crazy as Fvck
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at June 28, 2018 08:37 PM (/TNyL)
Yeah, Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs
It mentioned that he was a Federal employee. Would be interesting to learn more about that.
Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 28, 2018 08:44 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: x at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (nFwvY)
ISWYDT
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:44 PM (VM6ev)
She doesn't look like she has a lot of seasoning on her yet, no. Stuffed animals on the bed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:44 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 28, 2018 08:44 PM (Y9uH4)
Posted by: pep at June 28, 2018 08:30 PM (T6t7i)
...
You're saying you want him on Rushmore already?
Posted by: TexasDan at June 28, 2018 08:44 PM (yL25O)
WTF??
But I'm supposed to "trust their judgement" because " GRRL POWERZ" and shit.
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at June 28, 2018 08:45 PM (/TNyL)
http://tinyurl.com/yafzkyg3
Batshit crazy...on a good day.
Posted by: Tami at June 28, 2018 08:42 PM (Enq6K)
Yay, O'Connor v. Donaldson!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:45 PM (hDNQh)
Republican senators have a long history of confirming anyone a Democrat nominates.
That's Who They Are.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 28, 2018 08:45 PM (4XN7s)
Posted by: IanDeal at June 28, 2018 08:39 PM
FIFY.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 28, 2018 08:45 PM (pew7u)
I can't wait until someone cures cancer to see how you will criticize it.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 28, 2018 08:45 PM (dJdQf)
Yeah that was a bad episode, but... if that's the only thing you can hold against the man after 8 years in office...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:45 PM (39g3+)
But there I was, November, votin' for the turds.
And Trump wasn't my first pick either, but it was never in doubt who I'd vote for in November.
Binary -- It's not just for computer code.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 28, 2018 08:45 PM (0ogQG)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2018 08:46 PM (gUCYC)
By: Daily Record Staff September 18, 2015
Torts -- Defamation -- Failure to state a claim The appellant of
this pro se appeal is Jarrod W. Ramos. The appellees are 1) Eric Thomas
Hartley, formerly a staff writer and columnist with The Capital; 2)
Thomas L. Marquardt, the editor and publisher of The Capital; and 3)
Capital Gazette Communications, LLC.
Posted by: Tami at June 28, 2018 08:31 PM (Enq6K)
Full case: https://casetext.com/case/ramos-v-hartley
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 28, 2018 08:46 PM (rnXGe)
Kristol Blue Persuasion warms the cuckles of my fart.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:46 PM (VM6ev)
Then the left decided they'd go nuts.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:47 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 28, 2018 08:22 PM (nKbPK)
Ramos. Like Jorge Ramos. Maybe they're related
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 28, 2018 08:47 PM (SiINZ)
They offer zilch. Their gal didn't make the cut and just because they can string together three or four "yardstick" words in a paragraph cannot undo all of the stupid that they did and continue to do up to this day.
Leave them where you find them. No need to engage or debate them. They are ghosts. Let them remain ghosts for eternity.
Posted by: Drider at June 28, 2018 08:47 PM (HdKKm)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 28, 2018 08:47 PM (rnXGe)
Dude saved the union. I believe that to be an unqualified good regardless of his standing outside the U.S. (which in my experience is still pretty prominent).
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 28, 2018 08:41 PM (XrCyE)
there is a statue of Lincoln in London by Westminster ; around the world he is regarded as one responsible for abolition of slavery int eh US and is often one of the two, the other being Washington, known US presidents
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 08:47 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (sdi6R)
From my link above:
He has a degree in computer engineering and has worked for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for six years, Drewniak said. He had no previous criminal
record.
Posted by: Tami at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (Enq6K)
So many dead to me, so many. Really frees up the day, what with ignoring them and all.
Posted by: The Charlie Daniels of the Torque Wrench at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (Jj+59)
John Hayward is the ol' Doc Zero from Hot Air. When it was good. I help convince him to turn pro back in the day.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Used to hear him on Rusty Humphries' radio show many years ago.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (IqV8l)
fbi went down there hoping the shooter was wearing a MAGA hat, yelling "fake news" like it was 'allahu akbar.'
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (4XN7s)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 28, 2018 08:43
No. They're in on the scam. The little fuckers know exactly what they're doing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (pew7u)
Gee, that would only be about the 100th out of the last 100 "mass shooters" to fit that description.
Maybe with the mountains of gun control laws on the books, they oughta add something about mental illness to the screening.
Oh.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (QDnY+)
Yay, O'Connor v. Donaldson!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:45 PM (hDNQh)
That was a good fight especially when Donald O'Connor pulled Sam Donaldson's rug off
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Brian Ross at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (nWc4E)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:40 PM (39g3+)
Arguably his greatest accomplishment happened when he went home after serving two terms as president. Astonished the world he did that someone would voluntarily give up power.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (4ErVI)
Republican senators have a long history of confirming anyone a Democrat nominates.
That's Who They Are.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 28, 2018 08:45 PM (4XN7s)
???
Posted by: Merick Garland at June 28, 2018 08:49 PM (STPlW)
Says:
The Democrats haven't been this upset
Since the Republicans took their slaves away.
hhahahahahahahah.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 28, 2018 08:49 PM (jG5Dt)
Was it hear I heard the story someone related (probably fictional) that whichever dude she was 'spending time with' in the admin (Lendowski?) she was complaining about in a meeting with Trump there. Trump stops her and says 'Don't worry about it, you're the hottest piece of ass he is ever going to get.' She flees the room, mortified, and Trump looks around and says 'What'd I say?'
May well be false, but I liked that story.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 08:49 PM (+xnSO)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 28, 2018 08:45 PM (dJdQf)
Depends on how. If it requires the blood of virgins ? Yeah ... I'll probably bitch.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 28, 2018 08:49 PM (DOpvX)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at June 28, 2018 08:49 PM (wSC8T)
I miss the horny little dude. I also miss the inappropriate anal sex jokes.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at June 28, 2018 08:50 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at June 28, 2018 08:50 PM (/TNyL)
May well be false, but I liked that story.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 08:49 PM (+xnSO)
Just like he never used the word shit-hole, but you kind of wish he did.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:50 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: Cock Curious Cuck Cruise Captain Cristol at June 28, 2018 08:50 PM (UFLLM)
Posted by: April at June 28, 2018 08:51 PM (e8PP1)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (4ErVI)
THAT is how you know we were the luckiest nation on the face of the planet, right there. I agree with King George in the apocryphal story: The Greatest Man in the World.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 08:51 PM (+xnSO)
Says:
The Democrats haven't been this upset
Since the Republicans took their slaves away.
hhahahahahahahah.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 28, 2018 08:49 PM (jG5Dt)
That was Rob Schneider's line on Election Night '16.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:51 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: The Charlie Daniels of the Torque Wrench at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (Jj+59)
Yup.....President Trump has caused a lot of masks to fall.
Never forgive, never forget.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 28, 2018 08:51 PM (EoRCO)
--
And Trump is on Facebook. It's Trump's fault!11!!
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at June 28, 2018 08:51 PM (mQ0Mc)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 28, 2018 08:41 PM (XrCyE)
Yeah, he did. But OTOH, he was pretty ineffectual as a President, and about that saving the Union thing: what was legal/ moral/ philosophical justification for that? Did anyone tell the states that they were joining a club that they couldn't resign from? If they had been, would they have joined? I doubt it. I doubt it very much.
OK, there's a might makes right argument here, but I don't see a more intellectually defensible argument for it.
Should the EU now force the Brits to stay in the EU? Because that's a pretty close analogue to the situation in 1861.
Prior to the Civil War, people said "The United States ARE ..." Afterward, it became "The United States IS ..."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:51 PM (hDNQh)
Is some crazy Southern Hemispheric Ozzie Maori spacing shit?
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at June 28, 2018 08:52 PM (/TNyL)
I don't think he's in the same class as Kristol and Rubin et al. I think hes more a Trump skeptic who didn't vote for him but appreciates some of what he's doing. Shaprio, for example, still kinda neverturmper, but willing to admit good and not pro-Democrat just to stop the eeevil Trump.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:52 PM (39g3+)
Do you really believe if Merrick Garland's confirmation proceeded and went to a vote, he wouldn't get unanimous Republican support?
lisa jackson
eric holder
lois lerner
loretta lynch
hill clinton
all these rotten leftists got almost, if not total, unanimous R support
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 28, 2018 08:52 PM (4XN7s)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (4ErVI)
THAT is how you know we were the luckiest nation on the face of the planet, right there. I agree with King George in the apocryphal story: The Greatest Man in the World.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 08:51 PM (+xnSO)
This.
It's why I put George Washington in first place. By a mile.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 08:53 PM (hDNQh)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 28, 2018 08:40 PM (vChNs)
Hunt and pecker.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 28, 2018 08:53 PM (jG5Dt)
But there I was, November, votin' for the turds.
And Trump wasn't my first pick either, but it was never in doubt who I'd vote for in November.
Binary -- It's not just for computer code.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 28, 2018 08:45 PM (0ogQG)
...
This bears repeating over and over.
We all did our best to drag the sacks of crap that the GOPe foisted upon us over the finish line. Hell, we found ways to see the what we thought would be the upside in the form of their running mates.
But Never Trump, and non-binary choices.
Posted by: TexasDan at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (yL25O)
...
oooh.
Nice one!
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (/TNyL)
Posted by: Defenestratus at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (yG6Vk)
He's one of the famous SF writers I've never read, so I can't really eulogize. RIP.
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (hMwEB)
Arguably his greatest accomplishment happened when he went home after serving two terms as president. Astonished the world he did that someone would voluntarily give up power.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 28, 2018 08:48 PM (4ErVI)
I read somewhere that King George III himself was impressed by that.
Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (sdi6R)
Did anyone tell the states that they were joining a club that they couldn't resign from? If they had been, would they have joined? I doubt it. I doubt it very much.
Marriage with no divorce possible.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Sandra Flukey at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (8lsuS)
Also permanently subordinated the will of the states to the federal government.
May have been in a good cause, but we are reaping the unexpected consequences now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (+xnSO)
btw, the Democrats said President Trump's pick to head the IRS will have trouble getting confirmed. Isn't that hilarious!
It's like lois lerner never happened.
Democrats are POLITICIZING the IRS, once again.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (4XN7s)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 28, 2018 08:55 PM (Tyii7)
En fuego.
Posted by: eleven at June 28, 2018 08:55 PM (+lOpA)
Read his speeches. I can't quote which ones, but the inaugural addresses and the Douglass debates probably cover it. He goes into great detail in answer to all you questions.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at June 28, 2018 08:55 PM (LWu6U)
But it didn't proceed and the reason is almost entirely because McConnell and to a lesser extent Grassley refused to let it go forward.
Kind of hard to hack on Republicans and not admit it was Republicans who not only blocked Garland but made a Supreme Court Justice seat a big election issue for Trump.
Every now and then they do good and they've done awesome on judges at all levels.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2018 08:55 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: jakee308 at June 28, 2018 08:53 PM (jG5Dt)
Mike Hunt and pecker.
Posted by: Sandra Flukey at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (8lsuS)
Sponsored by Dickens' Cider....
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:55 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at June 28, 2018 08:55 PM (wSC8T)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 28, 2018 08:43 PM (eXA4G)
OH. They'll use any orifice they can find.
So watch out!
Posted by: jakee308 at June 28, 2018 08:56 PM (jG5Dt)
Posted by: Kate Winslet's Boobs at June 28, 2018 08:56 PM (B9AxO)
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 08:56 PM (bUjCl)
Ellison is one of the greats, a huge talent. You've watched shows he wrote scripts for: Babylon Five, Star Trek, etc.
Dude would go to book signings with a typewriter and sheets of paper. He'd ask the people that came for a story idea, then type it, at the signing, in real time. Post the pages on the window so passers by could read the story as it developed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 08:56 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: REDACTED at June 28, 2018 08:56 PM (STPlW)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (IqV8l)
Yeah ... count me in with the anti-federalists.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 28, 2018 08:57 PM (DOpvX)
want a shitlord who drinks liberal tears and looks like he'll tear your
arm off and shove it up your ass.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 28, 2018 08:39 PM (4ErVI)
Sauron, Dark Lord of Mordor isn't busy with anything right now.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 08:57 PM (0QYMt)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 28, 2018 08:55 PM (Tyii7)
Sons of accomplished and beloved fathers have serious issues.
Kristol, Meathead, Chris Buckley, etc. All are bitter that they will never be like their dads.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:57 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: Kate Winslet's Boobs at June 28, 2018 08:57 PM (B9AxO)
Posted by: Palinbeatsturdblossom at June 28, 2018 08:57 PM (/qiij)
Posted by: Sandra Flook at June 28, 2018 08:58 PM (Tyii7)
In fact, Lincoln was able to keep the major European powers out of the Civil War. See this analysis for example regarding the U.K.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_and_the_American_Civil_War
Example:
"Lincoln appointed Charles Francis Adams, Sr., as minister to Britain. An important part of his mission was to make clear to the British that the war was strictly an internal insurrection and afforded the Confederacy no rights under international law. Any movement by Britain to recognizing the Confederacy officially would be considered an unfriendly act toward the US. Seward's instructions to Adams included the suggestion that it should be made clear to Britain that a nation with widely scattered possessions, as well as a homeland that included Scotland and Ireland, should be very wary of "set[ting] a dangerous precedent.""
Posted by: Roland Hirsch at June 28, 2018 08:58 PM (FN188)
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 28, 2018 08:27 PM (FOPyv)
-------------------
Here is his twitter page:
https://twitter.com/EricHartleyFrnd
Here is his arrest report from a few years ago on his twitter page
https://tinyurl.com/y8tmlkrk
Here is his mylife page
https://tinyurl.com/ybf2rsu2
He is a white, arab, asiatic indian..and an environmental supporters.
Outside of that his main purpose in life was his hatred for the Capital Gazette.
Posted by: William Eaton at June 28, 2018 08:58 PM (MuTTO)
Posted by: Kate Winslet's Boobs at June 28, 2018 08:57 PM (B9AxO)
"Get in line."
- - Juan, Sheppy, Geraldo
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:58 PM (VM6ev)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 28, 2018 08:59 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (sdi6R)
That was the story I mentioned above. King George is discussing with one of his ministers the situation as the revolution is ending. The King says to his minister, 'So, Washington will make himself King of America then? He has the Army and the Love of his people.'
The minister said: 'They say he will not, that he will give his power over to the People and disband the Army.'
The King replied: "Then he would truly be the Greatest Man in the World."
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 08:59 PM (+xnSO)
Even this twaddle you posted above is stream of consciousness hedging. It's symptomatic of someone who is manic, meandering in their thoughts and listless conclusions.
Ahoy!
Posted by: Marcus T, Jambalaya at June 28, 2018 08:59 PM (TpbP3)
Yeah, that's why I call him the Babe Ruth of presidents.
There have been people who batted better than Ruth. There have been guys who hit more home runs (with more games, mind you). There have been guys who pitched 20 win seasons.
But there has only been one player in the history of baseball who hit more home runs in a season than every other team in baseball combined and who ALSO was a pitcher who threw three 20-win seasons in a row before becoming an outfielder.
There's only one. No matter how good anyone gets in baseball, they'll never be better. Ever.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 09:00 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2018 08:54 PM (IqV8l)
Yeah ... count me in with the anti-federalists.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 28, 2018 08:57 PM (DOpvX)
not exactly like a marriage. more like a Partnership where ALL parties have to agree to let one or ...a dozen go. and if there is no agreement....
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 09:00 PM (bUjCl)
other side,
News to me. I generally call people that are attracted to progtards? "progtards".
so, yeah. The lefties come after our single women, and our
single women aren't totally put off by their repugnant beliefs,
My point exactly. You sleep with a Socialist but I should trust what you tell me.
How is their judgement any different than Billy Kristol's ?
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at June 28, 2018 09:00 PM (/TNyL)
If he wasn't the first he could be no more than a thought seconder.
Posted by: Northernlurker
And, since "second place is the first loser", I propose all such people should be rebranded "Thought Losers".
Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2018 09:00 PM (JGBbg)
Posted by: Roland Hirsch at June 28, 2018 09:00 PM (FN188)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 08:59 PM (+xnSO)
Maybe that's what drove George loopy
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 28, 2018 09:00 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Darth Randall at June 28, 2018 09:00 PM (v3DL/)
This was the 2008-2009 timeframe. I carried some slogans I excerpted from his writings in the 2009 9/12 March on Washington.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2018 09:00 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 28, 2018 09:01 PM (H5rtT)
Washington was a demigod. Even his contemporaries, no shrinking violets, acknowledged how crucial he was, how he was the necessary man who made all others fall back into the shadow of his selfless greatness.
Lincoln rose to the occasion, greatness was thrust upon him and he rose. John Wilkes Booth was the worst calamity the South had to face.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:01 PM (0QYMt)
Posted by: April at June 28, 2018 08:51 PM (e8PP1)
http://tinyurl.com/yafzkyg3
Posted by: Tami at June 28, 2018 09:02 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: jakee308 at June 28, 2018 09:02 PM (jG5Dt)
Goodnight kids. Zei gezunt.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 09:02 PM (VM6ev)
Its hard to hold someone's love life against their judgment. I mean seriously, ever guy here probably has a story of a girl he dated that he looks back on in horror or regret.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 09:02 PM (39g3+)
"Get in line."
- - Juan, Sheppy, Geraldo
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2018 08:58 PM (VM6ev)
Exactly. I never got having these idiots on to be 'fair and balanced'. Fuck. I don't WANT fair and balanced. The Libs have all the MSM. I want CONSERVATIVE! Don't pollute the airwaves with these douches.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 28, 2018 09:02 PM (2CQCl)
You'd have to be a shithead or a hypocrite to hookup with a leftist.
Why would you want to raise kids with a totalitarian dink who buys into all that white privilege and global warming bullshit?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 28, 2018 09:03 PM (4XN7s)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 09:00 PM (39g3+)
Indeed. He is THE caveat to 'Power Corrupts.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 09:03 PM (+xnSO)
U.S. Civil War: The US-Russian Alliance that Saved the Union
"April 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War, which began when Confederate forces opened fire upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The following essay by Webster Tarpley, tells about the largely untold alliance between President Abraham Lincoln and Russian Tsar Alexander II, which by many accounts was key to the North winning the U.S. Civil War, sealing the defeat of the British strategic design."
I am not familiar, however, with the author.
Posted by: Roland Hirsch at June 28, 2018 09:03 PM (FN188)
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 09:03 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Gaius Julius Caesar at June 28, 2018 09:03 PM (FTPVM)
and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 08:57 PM (0QYMt)
yeah but that eye thing is kinda creepy.
And forget about the Mouth Of Sauron.
That guy? needs a dentist.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 28, 2018 09:03 PM (jG5Dt)
In the mid-late 70's I was considering going to law school. I -very briefly - meet Kennedy at a social/recruitment thingee for McGeorge Law School, where he taught Constitutional law. I told him I was a 'very strict constitutionalist' and asked if he thought the legal profession had a place for me. He didn't answer me direct, instead he invited me to sit in on some of lectures and make my own decision. I did so,
I came away with several conclusions:
(1) Kennedy has an intellectual passion for not just the Constitution, but also the very concept of a Constitution as 'the law of the land".
(2)'Strict Constitutionalist' is - in practice - a much more complex concept than the words imply. A 'Four Corners' test by the most reasonable people with the highest professional integrity will almost certainly result in differing opinions.
(3) He held 'results oriented' Justices in disdain. Arriving at the 'correct' decision is far more important and critical than reaching the 'popular or fair' result. Political (read 'popular' or 'ideological') issues should be decided legislatively, not judicially.
Over the years I've read Kennedy's decisions closely and concluded that the law professor I heard had stuck to his guns. Yes, he authored several controversial opinions. But he did so based on his scholarly assessment of 'the law' rather than a citizen's opinions of what 'ought to be right'. He is a very good writer and teacher. Reading his opinions is a fantastic education in 'Constitutiional' law.
You may disagree with his results - but arguing with him on his grounds will lead to embarrassment: and maybe, just maybe, a better understanding of how this whole thing is 'supposed' to work.
Apologies for the wall of text.
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at June 28, 2018 09:03 PM (0F8n5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 09:04 PM (+xnSO)
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 09:00 PM (bUjCl)
Thats not a partnership. Thats political slavery.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 28, 2018 09:04 PM (DOpvX)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 28, 2018 08:47 PM (rnXGe)
That poor woman he stalked that the newspaper story was about.. I hope somebody has checked on her.
Posted by: not the mama at June 28, 2018 09:04 PM (t2AQi)
to sacrifice the country to maintain their imagined influence and
position. They should all be shipped forcefully to North Dakota Korea.
Posted by: IanDeal at June 28, 2018 08:39 PM
FIFY.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 28, 2018 08:45 PM (pew7u)
Why not Minot?
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:04 PM (0QYMt)
Yeah. The only man with the rhetorical ability and by that point the political clout and cachet to restrain vengeful Northern Republicans from brutalizing the south was Lincoln, and he would have. He held no animosity toward the South, as the South. Him being alive would have led to a completely different reconstruction.
But Booth killed him and well... history.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 09:04 PM (39g3+)
I stopped listening to them decades ago. Decades.
Thought leaders my ass.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 28, 2018 09:04 PM (Axa8z)
is a quisling traitor rat bastard backstabbing monkey ejaculate eating coital wad.
I do not mean to insult quislings, traitors, rodents, illegitimate children, backstabbers, or those who choose, as part of their lifestyle, eating monkey ejaculate.
Posted by: tdatsd at June 28, 2018 09:04 PM (Yjedk)
"This guy's such a coward, he can't even suck a dick without being mealy-mouthed about it." - ace
That had me laughing out loud for a little while.
Thanks. I needed that.
Posted by: Cold Civil War at June 28, 2018 09:04 PM (Z2PYk)
SC is just too important, I wold actually love it if that wan't the case and I could flip the bird to Establishment Republicans in the general election, but that's just childish and I'm not going to destroy the nation to make a point.
Posted by: Pede at June 28, 2018 09:05 PM (uc45P)
Posted by: Gaius Julius Caesar at June 28, 2018 09:06 PM (FTPVM)
Oh, I'm sure that all the individual states were perfectly willing to give up a little sovereignty to become members of a club they couldn't leave, where they would be besieged by thousands of "regulations" passed and enforced by swarms of unelected bureaucrats, and furthermore a club in which they would wind up effectively being ruled by nine unaccountable "men" wearing dresses!
What was not to like?
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at June 28, 2018 09:06 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: Random Thought Generator at June 28, 2018 09:06 PM (iOKfQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2018 09:07 PM (IqV8l)
The arrogance and delusion and bigotry of his marriage ruling are astonishing. The military tribunals ruling was simply ridiculous (quite similar to the laughable dissent on the travel EO, or the inferior court rulings that preceded it).
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2018 09:07 PM (QDnY+)
That's just from the title that Tami posted.
Lot of people file a suit and then don't name any actual harm having been done.
They have to show the defendant did it with malice and that it harmed the plaintiff and show how and how much. And the amount to redress the damage.
the judge can't read the plaintiffs mind.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 28, 2018 09:07 PM (jG5Dt)
Everyone's balls are made of pussy. A fetus starts developing before hormones take over. That's why the bag has a seam up the middle; it had to close up the hole.
Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2018 09:08 PM (JGBbg)
Ramos already improvised smoke grenades for his revenge. If he could not get a gun either legally or illegally he would have used a bomb or arranged a fire.
But beyond that. Most people know if they are not capable of controlling themselves or if they are really damaged their families know. If you lose control when you get angry, then it is on you to not walk or drive around with a deadly weapon. If you have a psycho child it is on you to get them committed before they shoot up a school.
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at June 28, 2018 09:08 PM (eASYU)
Here is his twitter page:
https://twitter.com/EricHartleyFrnd
Posted by: William Eaton at June 28, 2018 08:58 PM (MuTTO)
Yeah, he looks like the picture of mental health. What is that symbol on his forehead?
Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2018 09:08 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: zombie potus grant at June 28, 2018 09:08 PM (Q9ugn)
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at June 28, 2018 08:50 PM (/TNyL)]/i]
IDK, but it gets me moist.
Posted by: Bill K. at June 28, 2018 09:08 PM (sXefu)
Congrats !
In with that trope before CNN or MSNBC !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at June 28, 2018 09:09 PM (GNCPT)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 09:04 PM (39g3+)
The War Between The States was bad enough, but Booth's actions screwed this country over for decades, if not a century. Good thing we finally got Obama to do the necessary racial healing we so dearly needed!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at June 28, 2018 09:09 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: Admiral John Roberts at June 28, 2018 09:09 PM (5jVnA)
OOOO that would have been a tough one.
I was all out of voting for the lesser of two evils after 40 years of it.
No I think I would've drawn the line at voting for jeb.
Maybe wrote someone in or something.
Because I'm pretty sure, Jeb would not have won.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 28, 2018 09:09 PM (jG5Dt)
SC is just too important, I wold actually love it if that wan't the case and I could flip the bird to Establishment Republicans in the general election, but that's just childish and I'm not going to destroy the nation to make a point.
Posted by: Pede at June 28, 2018 09:05 PM (uc45P)
Yup...when Jeb! went down and down hard, I knew Donald Trump was the man for the job.
Same with Dondi. Down goes Dondi! Down goes Dondi!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 28, 2018 09:10 PM (EoRCO)
Posted by: Average Guy at June 28, 2018 09:10 PM (GWdRZ)
Yeah Kennedy made some terrible decisions that had zero to do with the constitution or law. Kelo vs New London for one of many. He wasn't some super constitutionalist professor of law we should honor. He would swing wildly based on ... it was hard to predict, really.
And the crazy thing is, before she resigned, Sandra Day O'Connor was the swing vote on the court.
Ronnie. .333 is great in baseball but not for courts.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 09:10 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Average Guy at June 28, 2018 09:10 PM (GWdRZ)
check out my blog tomorrow - gigantic booknado from the clfa - lots of new, sale, and free books!
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at June 28, 2018 09:11 PM (hMwEB)
SC is just too important, I wold actually love it if that wan't the case and I could flip the bird to Establishment Republicans in the general election, but that's just childish and I'm not going to destroy the nation to make a point.
Posted by: Pede at June 28, 2018 09:05 PM (uc45P)
And Jeb would have picked squishy Rs for the court like Souter who turned out to be a left winger
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2018 09:11 PM (UADBM)
Donald Trump, on the other hand, properly disciplined his kids and made them work for themselves. As a result, they're successful and good-natured and well-behaved. They might not be able to equal their father's great accomplishments, but they still have their own impressive accomplishments to take pride in.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at June 28, 2018 09:11 PM (wSC8T)
I sympathize, and regardless of what Kennedy said to his students, his decisions were colored by his personal biases, not by adherence to the letter of the law. He was not a true constitutionalist. If he was he would have left the marriage decision alone.
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 09:11 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Billie Jean Kristol at June 28, 2018 09:12 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2018 09:08 PM (sdi6R)
John McCain's tumor went a visiting....
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 28, 2018 09:12 PM (EoRCO)
and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 08:57 PM (0QYMt)
yeah but that eye thing is kinda creepy.
And forget about the Mouth Of Sauron.
That guy? needs a dentist.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 28, 2018 09:03 PM (jG5Dt)
It would make an awesome spoof photo for an Onion article with the Supreme Court and the Eye of Sauron there. "Trump Nominates Sauron for Supreme Court; Elves, Hobbits hardest Hit."
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:13 PM (0QYMt)
Posted by: Pede at June 28, 2018 09:05 PM (uc45P)
I probably wouldn't have. Romney in 2012 was the last straw for me. If the nation is bent on going to hell they're going to have to do it without my sanction.
There was less difference between Jeb and Hillary than between Trump and Hillary. That's pretty obvious.
Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2018 09:13 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 28, 2018 09:13 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2018 09:11 PM (UADBM)
True, however, even the squishiest of Jeb's nominees would be a rock solid conservative paragon of virtue compared to any Hillzabub nominee!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at June 28, 2018 09:13 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 09:14 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 28, 2018 09:14 PM (4XN7s)
Sigh... You did that on purpose, didn't you?
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at June 28, 2018 09:14 PM (wSC8T)
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I would have to think about that for a very long time. Because if that were to have happened I know iJeb! would have taken the country down but a decade later than the Beast. I might have just said Tear it down, burn it, salt the land.
IOW, rip the band aid off fast.
It would have been a weeks long decision and a 50/50 call.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 28, 2018 09:14 PM (pw+jk)
At least with Clinton ... the mindless dicks out there that vote (R) would have opposed her by reflex.
But with Jeb ? That same crowd would be all-in for open borders and who knows what else. We'd probably be entering the EU by now.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 28, 2018 09:15 PM (DOpvX)
Posted by: April at June 28, 2018 09:15 PM (e8PP1)
Did anyone tell the states that they were joining a club that they couldn't resign from? If they had been, would they have joined? I doubt it. I doubt it very much.
...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity
The states were dragged kicking and screaming into unity.
Posted by: Sheanine at June 28, 2018 09:15 PM (e8VEY)
Booth's actions screwed this country over for decades, if not a century.
Good thing we finally got Obama to do the necessary racial healing we
so dearly needed!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at June 28, 2018 09:09 PM (n9EOP)
All in day's work.
Posted by: Barry O. at June 28, 2018 09:16 PM (sXefu)
Behold our hot FLOTUS:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5895095
She's wearing flats instead of those towering things she usually wears. Very expensive flats, though.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 28, 2018 09:16 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2018 09:11 PM (UADBM)
True, however, even the squishiest of Jeb's nominees would be a rock solid conservative paragon of virtue compared to any Hillzabub nominee!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at June 28, 2018 09:13 PM (n9EOP)
Of course, not arguing that. Just venting about RINOs . If I don't Vent, I will explode
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2018 09:17 PM (UADBM)
Say, how is CNN spinning this one?
Posted by: Splunge at June 28, 2018 09:18 PM (Vb4BV)
And the press these last few months haven't helped.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 28, 2018 09:18 PM (jG5Dt)
Yes it is. Other than a few swing states, that's EXACTLY how it works.
Hayward must've flunked out of Electoral College.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 28, 2018 09:18 PM (GXOTw)
Like Grant and Sherman who gave generous terms to the defeated armies, Lincoln would have been generous in rebuilding the South. I think he would have done a Marshall Plan if he had lived.
Grant at Appomattox let the officers keep their personal weapons, let those who brought horses and mules to the army take them home, and distributed rations to the Confederates for the trip. Sounds like he had a good idea what the government, i.e., Lincoln, wanted.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:19 PM (0QYMt)
https://tinyurl.com/y9xdse3g
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 09:19 PM (bsxmd)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 09:19 PM (39g3+)
Then you have no claims to being a thinker. How could that not have entered your mind?
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 28, 2018 09:19 PM (Axa8z)
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2018 09:19 PM (iiixZ)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite
...
Great point and well said.
Ivanka is still a Socialist married to a Socialist, though.
New York water, maybe?
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at June 28, 2018 09:19 PM (/TNyL)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 09:14 PM (39g3+)
Some Hawaiian Judge: And what exactly is wrong with that?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 28, 2018 09:20 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Pede at June 28, 2018 09:05 PM (uc45P)
I would have too, and I don't hate to admit it; I'm proud of it. Jeb is like the Platonic archetype of a total squish, but when the alternative is President Hillary? I'd pay almost any price.
Posted by: Splunge at June 28, 2018 09:20 PM (Vb4BV)
I think he prefers it up the ass. I've never been keen on the "cuck" meme; it really isn't that funny. But if he is, can anyone blame Mrs Kristol? Wimmin got needs too.
Posted by: George LeS at June 28, 2018 09:20 PM (59GGI)
The reason for the coverup, according to her, is that she says there is time stamped video showing the responding officers standing in the hallway outside his room, listening to the shooting going on, and doing nothing. She says they stayed outside for (I think it was 12 minutes) listening to him shooting, and didn't try to make an entrance until he finally gave up on it. That's the reason for the big cover up - the big, brave "heroes" of law enforcement were a bunch of fucking cowards who hid and made sure they kept themselves safe while hundreds were slaughtered below them.
That's the secret.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2018 09:20 PM (V2Yro)
https://tinyurl.com/y9xdse3g
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2018 09:19 PM (bsxmd)
Maybe it was with Dick Painter and that drove George loopy
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 28, 2018 09:21 PM (SiINZ)
If you ever see one at a gun range, never turn your back on them!
Ripley : Well, somebody's gonna have to go out there. Take a portable terminal, go out there and patch in manually.
Private Kristol : Oh yeah, sure! With those things runnin' around? You can count me out.
Corporal Hicks : Yeah, I guess we can just count you out of everything, Kristol
Posted by: Trigger Warning at June 28, 2018 09:21 PM (YRXy3)
...
She's wearing flats instead of those towering things she usually wears. Very expensive flats, though.
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The sole of each shoe says "Deport".
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at June 28, 2018 09:21 PM (/TNyL)
Posted by: Rocky Raccoon at June 28, 2018 09:22 PM (B6UVL)
And that's the tragedy of Booth.
Here's the thing: I sympathize with his ideas, Lincoln was a tyrant who wiped his rear end with the constitution and did absolutely anything he needed to in order to maintain the USA as it was.
But... he also was a man who did good things and would have been far better for the South than what they got because of Booth's zealotry.
There's something to be said about the idea of kings, princes, presidents having to be bad people to do a good job.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 09:22 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 28, 2018 09:22 PM (Axa8z)
Posted by: zombie potus grant at June 28, 2018 09:08 PM (Q9ugn)
Yeah you know why. You were ok but the people you surrounded yourself with were the pits.
Albert Fall called and said Why couldn't I have worked for this guy!
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 28, 2018 09:22 PM (4ErVI)
Then you have no claims to being a thinker. How could that not have entered your mind?
Posted by: platypus, gg channel
That's, like, four years! I shouldn't have to think that far ahead.
My brain is very dangerous over short distances!
Posted by: John Hey, What? at June 28, 2018 09:22 PM (JGBbg)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:19 PM (0QYMt)
The bad started when the CoC of the day took over and turned profiteering into a holy mission called reconstruction.
Posted by: Sheanine at June 28, 2018 09:23 PM (e8VEY)
couldn't resign from? If they had been, would they have joined? I doubt
it. I doubt it very much.
...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity
I cannot imagine George Washington presiding over a Constitutional Convention that would create anything other than an indissolvable union of the states. Not after all he went through. To create a union where a state could blackmail the others with threats of secession when ever that state had a fit of pique about something? Then they may have well just kept the Articles of Confederation and gone back home.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:24 PM (0QYMt)
Posted by: Sheanine at June 28, 2018 09:25 PM (e8VEY)
I would have laughed at this and refused to believe it but... Broward County.... yeah I believe that's possible.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 09:26 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 28, 2018 09:26 PM (dUJdY)
In Hamdan - Kennedy's concurring opinion relies on a straight forward Separation of Powers analysis. Legislature v Executive. Read it and consider his analysis. Reaching his legal conclusion instead of succumbing to the hysterics of Stevens' majority decision.
Obergfell is again a clear, precise, and professional decision. I may - and do - disagree with some of his analysis - but I do so knowing that my disagreement is over interpretation; not simply the result. I may argue with him, but I have to respect his integrity.
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at June 28, 2018 09:26 PM (0F8n5)
Posted by: JAS at June 28, 2018 09:26 PM (3HNOQ)
That's the secret.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2018 09:20 PM (V2Yro)
Ummmmmm.....Yes. Sounds about right. Pensions first, last and always.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 28, 2018 09:26 PM (EoRCO)
I'm not convinced that McCain would have been better than Obama.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 28, 2018 09:27 PM (4ha45)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 28, 2018 09:27 PM (PvFoN)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:24 PM (0QYMt)
I can't imagine a group of men that just ran off the British allowing themselves to be "presided over" at all.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 28, 2018 09:28 PM (DOpvX)
The fact that there is nothing written into the constitution regarding the process by which a state may leave suggests that the idea wasn't even part of their thinking.
Now, personally I think that's a flaw, and there should be a process outlined and part of the constitution. An amendment would be a good idea. But its not there, and that does not in any way translate into "so you can just bail!" because that's not how countries work or have ever worked. The default inevitable position in all cases in history has been "you cannot just take part of our country and leave."
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 28, 2018 09:28 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 28, 2018 09:26 PM (EoRCO)
And gong home safe, every night, so you get to enjoy them!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at June 28, 2018 09:28 PM (n9EOP)
I had already seen the establishment pick straight-up take a dive in the previous two elections, and I was convinced that Jeb would do the same.
For me, it was Trump or bust.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at June 28, 2018 09:29 PM (wSC8T)
Sarah just sledge-hammered the hell out of the Truth nail.
" The division and chaos in this country isn't coming from RUSSIANS, it's coming from the 7th floor of the FBI and DOJ!!"
Posted by: dyno-elite canned hate at June 28, 2018 09:29 PM (/TNyL)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:24 PM (0QYMt)
there is a lot writted on the subject I think, various arguments, . most say, no mas to secession. not possible and was not envisioned by the founders, like our friend, James Madison.
I do not understand what people are talking about when they say Lincoln ignored the consitituion. Is that a SOuthern thing ?
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 09:29 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at June 28, 2018 09:29 PM (UFLLM)
tyrant who wiped his rear end with the constitution and did absolutely
anything he needed to in order to maintain the USA as it was"
And he was the tyrant who would have, once the insurrection was over, returned to normal relations. He didn't want it, but that was the task he was given, and thank God he proved to be a better man than the vast bulk of his contemporaries north or south. (BTW - if I recall correctly, the Confederate States government wasn't a bastion of libertarian behavior either.)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:30 PM (0QYMt)
I would have too, and I don't hate to admit it; I'm proud of it. Jeb is like the Platonic archetype of a total squish, but when the alternative is President Hillary? I'd pay almost any price.
Posted by: Splunge at June 28, 2018 09:20 PM (Vb4BV)
But Jeb is an open borders globalist, and so is Hillary. Either way, America was doomed.
I'm with Jukin the Deplorable earlier. Rip the Band-Aid off.
Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2018 09:30 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 28, 2018 09:28 PM (DOpvX)
Yes! There was a good reason for the "All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic" phrase!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at June 28, 2018 09:31 PM (n9EOP)
Posted by: Pede at June 28, 2018 09:05 PM (uc45P)
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I would have too. the SCOTUS is too important to me and Hillary's pick would have definitely been a far Left loon.
I'll go down fighting to save this country from Socialism.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 28, 2018 09:32 PM (PvFoN)
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 09:32 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 28, 2018 09:28 PM (DOpvX)
And yet they did, and they selected Washington, because he was the one they all trusted. He was, at that time, the indispensible man.
Or it was actually an anarcho-collectivist commune as described in the Holy Grail and the history books all lied to you.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:32 PM (0QYMt)
Clement Vallendigham was a Congressman from Ohio who objected to the Civil War.
Lincoln had him deported to Canada.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at June 28, 2018 09:33 PM (wSC8T)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at June 28, 2018 09:34 PM (H80UQ)
At the end of Hillary's two terms cases would be decided on a 2 to one split beween MechoRBG, Kagan and Roberts.
I think that would be a great strategy.
Posted by: Bill Krystol at June 28, 2018 09:34 PM (0uBKR)
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 09:35 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 09:35 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 09:36 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Abe at June 28, 2018 09:36 PM (e8VEY)
"...urging all newsrooms across the country to swiftly double down on the security of their buildings following the tragic mass shooting..."
you mean...secure their borders?
Posted by: vivi at June 28, 2018 09:36 PM (11H2y)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:32 PM (0QYMt)
Dunno' dude ... none of the history books I read ever called Washington a "demi-god".
You know ... for a cat that likes to mock anyone who ever seems "outraged" - you get outraged really fucking easily. Incredibly easily.
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 28, 2018 09:37 PM (DOpvX)
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2018 09:38 PM (bUjCl)
Yeah, that's why I call him the Babe Ruth of presidents.
******
But Geo. W. never could master the jump throw on a sharply hit grounder on his gackhand side at shortstop. He should have been a corner infielder.
Posted by: Muldoon at June 28, 2018 09:42 PM (LVREq)
You know what the conservative movement doesn't need? Thought-policing little pissant dictators like you.
It's a political party, not a fucking cult. You win elections by getting more people to vote for you, not by insulting them and driving them away.
That's the mistake the Dems have been making for a while now, and they're reaping the rewards for it in spades.
Yeah, I didn't vote for Trump in 2016. Or Hillary. So fucking what? Trump won my state by 15 points,
thus collecting all of the electoral votes. Which I knew was going to happen, because a) I didn't flunk basic civics in eighth grade, and b) also knew perfectly well that the GOP could nominate Ted Bundy's reanimated corpse and still have beaten Hillary Clinton.
I've been pleasantly surprised by Trump, and was planning on voting for him in 2020, but you're saying what... that I'm a "piece of shit" and now you don't want my vote?
Suck my choad.
Yeah, I'm still voting for Trump in 2020, but what you are doing is NOT HELPFUL.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 28, 2018 09:42 PM (GXOTw)
The reason for the coverup, according to her, is that she says there is time stamped video showing the responding officers standing in the hallway outside his room, listening to the shooting going on, and doing nothing. She says they stayed outside for (I think it was 12 minutes) listening to him shooting, and didn't try to make an entrance until he finally gave up on it. That's the reason for the big cover up - the big, brave "heroes" of law enforcement were a bunch of fucking cowards who hid and made sure they kept themselves safe while hundreds were slaughtered below them.
That's the secret.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2018 09:20 PM (V2Yro)
The Broward Sheriff's action and all the crap the school did like a security guard that sexually harassed a student and kept his job.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at June 28, 2018 09:44 PM (dKiJG)
Check out that statue of him that they have at the Smithsonian. He's sitting shirtless on a throne, with a sword held out hilt-forward (to symbolize him giving up power at the end of his Presidency).
He was a humble man, and didn't like such portrayals of him, but he tolerated it because we as a new nation needed our myths and our heroes.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at June 28, 2018 09:44 PM (wSC8T)
Gee, how well did that work on Obama in 2012? The economy wasn't just anemic, it was bleeding out on the floor, and that asshole STILL held on to win another term! Not to mention all these predictions, which to the pundits were little more than computer-generated scenarios, would be lived out in real life by millions of little people without comfy perches in Washington and New York.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at June 28, 2018 09:46 PM (fL4WD)
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at June 28, 2018 09:47 PM (bML9A)
Posted by: JAS at June 28, 2018 09:47 PM (3HNOQ)
Posted by: Peter Schiavo at June 28, 2018 09:52 PM (n44by)
So the choice was Hillary St. Scankles vs. Trump.
You don't have to be a Rhodes Scholar or a Jesuit to figure this out.
Posted by: JAS at June 28, 2018 09:53 PM (3HNOQ)
It's just a little hyperbole. All of his contemporaries knew how necessary Washington's agreement to any national form of government was. Nothing would be trusted if Washington did not put his endorsement on it. That is just the way it was.
The Capitol rotunda, at the top, has The Apotheosis of Washington. It is Washington ascending to the heavens and becoming a god. It is not an ironic hipster joke, Washington had that place for a lot of people.
And my mockery is very gentle to what other people here have and continue to deliver. I may not succeed always, but I try to be gentle to all, because hey - one day it could be me.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:53 PM (0QYMt)
You need to learn how the Electoral College works. And then you can blow me.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 28, 2018 09:59 PM (GXOTw)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 28, 2018 10:01 PM (YtZ8g)
Whoa we got a tough guy here!
Posted by: thathalfrican - OG LoG - Broke Minds Think Alike at June 28, 2018 10:03 PM (IYHxL)
*Id probably prefer the jurisprudence of Trumps pick to that of Kennedy. But...*
*One idea: Collins, Murkowski, McCain, Flake & Corker issue a statement w/ Jones, Manchin, Heitkamp, Donnelly & Coons...*
*I agree with the spirit of this. As an analytical matter, people are underestimating how much Dems can gum up the works in the Senate if theyre united on strategy, and especially if they can find one or two fellow traveling Republicans to join in or accept the gumming.*
What a fucking ignorant asshole. I usually dont just call people names, but Kristol is so immorally vile he really deserves nothing more.
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at June 28, 2018 10:04 PM (E16ei)
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So Bill is going to take his dentures before he starts blowing?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 28, 2018 10:21 PM (t5m5e)
But it didn't proceed and the reason is almost entirely because McConnell and to a lesser extent Grassley refused to let it go forward.
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Kind of hard to hack on Republicans and not admit it was Republicans who not only blocked Garland but made a Supreme Court Justice seat a big election issue for Trump.
Every now and then they do good and they've done awesome on judges at all levels.
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Agreed. It really moderated my opinion about McConnell, whom I knew to be a clever tactician but never considered a particular ballsy guy. THAT was ballsy. I couldn't see Ryan showing that degree of courage. That may be wrong but anything remotely similar doesn't spring to mind.
For the same reason it was critical Trump became president it is critical that the Senate remain in Republican hands. As things have unfolded, the USSC has an outsized, unjustifiable influence. It is what it is, and it's much better to be on this side of that reality.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 28, 2018 10:24 PM (YtZ8g)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:24 PM (0QYMt)
First, was George Washington thought or didn't think is beside the point. If the union were to indissoluble, those entering in it needed that to be clearly stated. No small print, or secret codicils: if this is indissoluble, the states choosing to join needed to know that.
And I notice no one has essayed an answer to the question of how this differs from Britain leaving the EU?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 10:31 PM (hDNQh)
In Oxford, Rhodes scholars are considered rah-rah dolts from the colonies.
True story. Only here are they considered to be intelligent.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 28, 2018 10:34 PM (hDNQh)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2018 10:37 PM (hyuyC)
Washington was a demigod. Even his contemporaries, no shrinking violets, acknowledged how crucial he was, how he was the necessary man who made all others fall back into the shadow of his selfless greatness.
Lincoln rose to the occasion, greatness was thrust upon him and he rose. John Wilkes Booth was the worst calamity the South had to face.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Inspector General and his Electric Accordian Band! at June 28, 2018 09:01 PM (0QYMt)
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Washington was the great man of deeds. Lincoln of ideas. different gifts, but there at the right time.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 28, 2018 10:41 PM (vChNs)
I mean, you never see them together, do you?
Posted by: JBSPRY at June 28, 2018 10:45 PM (fgikz)
Posted by: ron n. at June 28, 2018 11:12 PM (MBrFx)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2018 10:37 PM (hyuyC)
Yes, they kept their own currency and did not convert to Euro currency. A few other countries also followed that route, iirc. For the ones that did convert to Euro, it makes leaving the EU much more difficult.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 28, 2018 11:17 PM (Axa8z)
Considering that ACA is pretty much killed, whereas McCain would have created something near as bad only with Republican fingerprints on it that the party would still be "compromising" with the Dems on fixing, Obama over McCain worked out fairly well. Sure, Obama nominated Sotomayer and Kagan, but we'd have to pretend that Chief RINO McCain would have done better. He might have, but I wouldn't have bet money on it.
Posted by: JSchuler at June 28, 2018 11:26 PM (7axIG)
Posted by: Grateful at June 28, 2018 11:49 PM (YEb20)
Posted by: LGoPs at June 29, 2018 12:48 AM (WfMDW)
I kinda remember the Nevers and others mocking we pragmatists who were heavily focused on SCOTUS during the campaign. They insisted that Trump would nominate a Souter at best, or would seriously nominate his sister, Ted Nugent, or some other ridiculous choice. And you know what? Any of them would be better than the arch-proggies that Hillary would have nominated. She would have dumped Garland too.
Posted by: Fortunato at June 29, 2018 02:22 AM (h1qtI)
Posted by: Anna Mac at June 29, 2018 05:53 AM (rj4Yf)
Posted by: Rick67 at June 29, 2018 09:35 AM (tzgR3)
I get that - I didn't want Trump in the primaries either. I'm still not happy with the scorched earth treatment his Republican opponents got. That damages the brand for years to come.
Doc Zero had some great conservative writing as a commenter (kind of a COB arrangement) in Hot Air's old green room, back when Michelle Malkin still ran the place. He got employment at a couple places I tend to not follow, but it's good to see his writing in public again.
The green room posts are still archived, and they are still worth a read.
Posted by: Advo at June 29, 2018 10:56 AM (By5RL)
Posted by: Gandydancer at July 01, 2018 12:59 AM (SowZm)
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